The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-30
Notes.

To get good is animal; do good is human;
to be good is divine.
Ru.kin: A precious thing is the more precious
to us il it has been won by work or economy.
The London Missionary Society has feet of
five vessels plying between mission stations.
Three are in Polynesia and two in Africa. The
money for their support is raised by young
people,
organ of the Anglican church, published in Lon
don: 1.-THE name OF Wesley now rallies more
followers than any single name associated with
Christianity, other than that of Christ himself"
We have not only to ask for things but must
get whore God can give them to US. He has got
a long arm but gives his gifts at short range.
We get our prayers answered standing on grace
and hidden in the cleft of the rock, covered with
Christs hand.
Sunda A man ought to be manly man. and
and a woman ought to be womanly woman.
An effemiuate man and masculine woman
always Extensively abnormal Yet the true man
is sure to have a womanly side to his nature;
and a true woman is sure to have certain attri-
butes OF the best manliness But there is all
the difference in the world between womanliness
and effeminacy, ana between manliness and
masculiuity-in man or woman.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Sorrow is divine.
Sorrow is reigning on all the thrones of the uni
verse and the crown of ell crowns has been
of thorns. There have been many books that
treat of the sympathy of sorrow. but only one
that bids us glory in tribulation. and count it
all joy when we fall into divers Affections, that
many may be associated with that great fei-
lowship of suffering of which the ncarnate Son
OF God is the head, and through which He is
carrying a redemptive conflict to glorious vic
tory over evil If we suffer with Him. we shall
also reign with Him.
Professor Elmslic Spite of noisy but super
fetal appearances to the contrary, the preaching
that the people want is not a gospel of fads, and
phrases, and party cries, and forms of words.
sound or unsound; but it is gospel that makes
God great, and living, and regnant in every day
life; that does not theorize alone, but shows the
varv haar and ind and will nff yndYr tn
in Jesus Christ for our salvation; that gives men
areal Redeemer and a real forgiveness of real
sins. and endows them with faith. hope and
love that are not dead doctrines. but regenerat-
ing forces and sanctifvine graces, as potent as
ever they were in Peter or Paul
''Pectus facit theologus"-the heart should
make the theologian-said the sanity scholar
Neander and the heart touched by the spirit of
Christ is making our theology. In His light We
are more and more seeing light. More and more
we are saying to the mere theologians they
ask what they do for u.s. "Stand out of the
sunlight. Christ touches the heart making it
by the force Of His inspiring love more kind
moro tender. With such spirit in nature
we read, by the same instinct of love, the real
meaning of that gospel whose very center ia
love-a love too deep. too pure to conceal our
guilt but which, by reason of its very depth and
purity, will be to all sin az consuming fire-a
love which will not rest until in the soul God be
all in ALL
Bishop Liehtfoot, one of the recognized
Church of ENGLAND leaders, speaking before the
sonary work. said: 1--WE shall not Law the yoke
Of rigid uniformity the necks of our con-
verts. We shall lay down for ourselves as an
aim, not the multiplication of English churches
foreign soil. but the creation OF native
churches. We shall allow great latitude of de-
veopment in non-essentials such the form of
worship. We shall not impose our articles. or
even our prayer book, e necessity on native
peoples. We shall act throughout in the faith
that they too. like the races converted to Christ
in the ages past, have some treasure OF their
own. some special gift endowment to con-
tribute to the house OF God"
eehave heard of a speaker on one occasion
quoting the Latin commonplace, "Amicus Soc
rates. amcus Plato, sed major veritas.n which
for the benefit Of readers who share the re-
porter's ignorance of Latin we may translate:
81 love Socrates. and love Plato. but ] love
truth more than either" However. the speaker
as no doubt eratifed on the following morn
ing to End himself reported in the newspaper
IS having said: II NAV cuss Socrates. l may
cuss Plato, said Major Veritas." In like manner
Lord Carnarvon once remarked the public
platform that a clergyman nowadays needed
to combine the learning of Barrow with the
piety OF jeremy Taylor. The reporters ear
was not familiar with the names of these emil
nent dvines. and he therefore reported the noble
earl as having demanded from every clergyman
the learning of a barrow and piety of Journey
man tailor.